Phanocerus clavicornis Sharp, 1882

Luna-Luna, Alba Magali, Martins, Caleb Califre, Lopez-Perez, Andres, Ramirez-Ponce, Andres & Contreras-Ramos, Atilano, 2022, Aquatic beetle diversity from Volcan Tacana, Mexico: altitudinal distribution pattern and biogeographical affinity of the fauna, ZooKeys 1111, pp. 301-338 : 301

Phanocerus clavicornis Sharp, 1882

Distribution.

United States, Mexico (Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico ( Spangler and Santiago-Fragoso 1992; Segura et al. 2013; Jäch et al. 2016). This species was previously recorded from an altitudinal range of 88-549 m ( Hinton 1940b; Spangler and Santiago-Fragoso 1992). Herein, the species was found at levels 1 (670 m), 3 (1,126-1,194), and 4 (1,448-1,619 m).

Comments.

Collected on substrates of gravel, macrophytes, and leaf packs through four months of the sampling period (May, June, July, and August 2018, rainy season); also collected with a bucket light trap.